2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show: Part 1

February 28, 2011

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Bicycling traveled to Austin, Texas, to test out dozens of new bikes for the upcoming Editors' Choice issue. And just moments after we finished up pedaling all those bikes around, we were fortunate enough to be able stop in and catch a bit of the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, or NAHBS. While our pro photog was at the show shooting for the magazine, we decided to bust out our phones and snap a few photos of what we found to be some of the coolest bikes and people at the show. (We've got some video over here, too.)

Richard Sachs' cyclocross bikes are sought after by competitors the world over. The bikes have been raced on at the highest level of the sport in the U.S. Here, the iconic colors are caked in mud that Sachs himself gathered after riding the bikes in his backyard just for the show. richardsachs.com

Legor's Mattia Paganotti was trained in the art of frame building by well-known Italian builder Gino Lissinoli. Mattia produces but a small number of frames each year from his country home in Brescia, Italy. legorcicli.it